Further proof that TLC's late member, Lisa "Left Eye" Lopes, was not of sound
mind, arrived this week, courtesy of bandmate, Tionne "T-Boz" Watkins stating
they unadvisedly held their label boss, Clive Davis of Arista Records, at gunpoint, due to
the low royalties they received.

She stated Arista made $75 million dollars off their "Crazy, Sexy Cool"
album, but only paid the three band members $50,000 each.

I agree that Arista,
who had a subsidiary deal with LaFace Records and a production contract with
Pebbitone, could have given them more.

Tionne Watkins

Arista made more than enough money that they could have spread the wealth,
buy major labels are usually greedy and crooked, refusing to do so.

Clive Davis

TLC was later given a multi-million dollar settlement by LaFace Records.
Pebbitone should have bypassed Laface and done a direct subsidiary deal with a
major label, having done the work in putting TLC together in the first place.
But you live and learn.

October 22, 2:11 PM - T-Boz -- real name Tionne
Tenese Watkins -- one of the well-known members of the group TLC on The Mo'Nique
Show, saying that when their highly successfully Crazy, Sexy, Cool album
generated $75 million for Arista Records, Arista only gave the girls $50,000 a
piece.

So, the late member Lisa "Left Eye" Lopes decided
the group should hold Arista hostage with loaded guns till they got their money.

T-Boz said they interrupted a meeting that Sean "P
Diddy" or "Puff Daddy" Combs was having at the time, because LA Reid told them
that Clive Davis was the one who had their money.

Alas, T-Boz tells Mo'Nique that Arista did return
some funds to them, but then recouped it somehow -- and that the whole incident
became a learning lesson for the young trio.

"I wouldn't say do what we did...thank God we
didn't go to jail," T-Boz advised young women today getting into the music
industry. "Educate yourself. Learn about the business you're getting into."